I've been working on this, but I'm going away to Walt Disney World soon and won't be able to write any more while i'm away. (duh) Hopefully, I'll finish it before New Year's. This is coming in installments.
Dicovering the past of
Lucas Hunter Wolenczak
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October 21st, 2018
Dear Lucas, Hey kiddo. I hope your feeling better. Darwin's been asking for you, but don't worry we're taking care of him. Ben, Katie, and Miguel have been taking care of your computers.
You are probably wondering why I have written this letter. I know you already know what happened, but I want to explain it the way it was to me. It's a long story, so I will just start at the beginning.
"Everything's in perfect shape, captain." He replied, "Except that the computer sweeps you wanted done, haven't been done. I called Lucas, and he refused to answer."
"I'll go talk to him." Nathan said, "You have the bridge."
Nathan walked off the bridge and headed to Lucas' quarters.
"Hey, Lucas."
"Hi, Captain." Lucas looked up at him, "Is there something I can do for you?"
Nathan sat down in Lucas' chair, sensing something was wrong from the way the teen was acting, "I thought I asked you to do some computer sweeps."
Lucas sighed, "I was just doing them."
"Oh, really," Nathan began, "I didn't know Darwin is part of the computer."
"I was just playing around with the vocorder."
"Ah-huh. Get the sweeps done, and then I think Kristin wanted you to help her go through the crew's medical files."
Lucas grimaced, "Yes, sir."
"You okay?" Nathan asked.
"Yea. I'll get started on the computer checks and stuff."
"Okay." Nathan walked out of Lucas' room and turned to go to medbay to find Kristin.
"There are too many crewmen on this boat, Nathan." Kristin said, her hand on her forehead, "I am immensely glad that Lucas is going to help with this."
"I figured that. Lucas has some computer things to get done for me." Kristin sighed, but Nathan smiled and continued, "But, until he comes down here, I figured I'd let the cmdr. have the bridge and spend some time with you. You just have to tell me what to do."
Kristin smiled back, and explained how to transfer the codes for injuries & whatnot into the computers.
"I thought they already did this." Nathan said, starting to type a code into one of the two computers on Kristin's desk.
"They already do. When the communications buoy got hit by lightning, it wiped out some of the files. I just haven't gotten around to fixing it." She said, picking up a file and turning to her computer.
"Why?" Kristin asked, looking around her desk for something.
"He won't have to do anymore typing today." Nathan paused, "Kristin what are you looking for?"
"I'm missing a file." She said, pointing at the computer, which was blinking the words FILE MISSING : WOLENCZAK, LUCAS H.
Nathan stood up and began to look around Kristin's desk. A knock on the door made them stop, and Kristin moved to open the door.
Lucas stood there, "Hi, Doc. Hey, Captain." Lucas walked in and sat down in Kristin's chair. He looked at the computer, "I guess this means I can go back to my quarters."
"No, this means you have to help me find your file." Kristin immediately replied.
He looked at Nathan, who simply shrugged his shoulders, "If you think I'm going to go against her, you've lost your mind. Besides, it's your file we're missing."
Lucas sighed and pushed some papers around on the desk, "There I looked. Can I go now?"
"Lucas...You actually have to look." Kristin said, turning around from the file cabinet where she was looking.
"I did." He said, obviously lying.
"Lucas, what's gotten into you?" Nathan asked.
"Nothing! I just want to go back to my quarters!" Lucas yelled, jumping out of his seat.
Kristin stood there, stunned at his outburst, "Okay, you can go." She said, not even sure what she was saying.
Lucas walked to the door, opened it, and left the room. Kristin looked at Nathan, "What's the matter with him?"
"I have no clue. I talked to him before I came down to help you. He was annoyed that I'd interrupted his conversation with Darwin, but he wasn't acting like that."
"I'll talk to him once I finish this." She resumed looking for the file.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Lucas looked up and glared at them. "Do you two enjoy pissing me off?" He said, turning away from them.
Nathan looked shocked, but before he could say anything Kristin spoke up, "Lucas, we are just concerned. You are acting bizarre and I refuse to chalk this one up to hormones again. I've thought that many, many times. Too many times."
"I'm fine." He curtly answered, turning back to Darwin.
As if on cue, Lt. Benjamin Krieg appeared in the doorway followed by Lt. Cmdr. Katherine Hitchcock, "Ben, just admit you did it." Katie whined, apparently not noticing Nathan, Kristin, or Lucas.
"I didn't do it, Katie. We would I want to?" Ben replied, not noticing the trio, either.
"Benjamin Nicholas Krieg, I kn..." Katie stopped abruptly, finally noticing the other people in the moonpool, "Sir, Lucas, Doctor - I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here." She said, trying to hide her embarrassment.
"Obviously." Lucas said, as curt as before.
Katie looked at Lucas, shocked. She couldn't remember Lucas ever talking to her in the tone he'd just used.
Ben looked over at Lucas, "Lucas, are you okay?" He, too, had never heard Lucas talk like that. Lucas was usually calm, especially when he was with Darwin.
"I'm fine!" he said, fiercely, while getting out of the moonpool, "Damnit, I came down here to hide from you people! Can't you leave me alone?!?"
Kristin looked up, "Lucas Hunter Wolenczak!" She said, getting more concerned.
"Don't talk to me! Just leave me alone! I want to be alone! Do I need to spell it out for you?!?" Lucas walked out of the room, leaving behind four stunned, upset, and concerned adults.
"Sir?" Jonathan asked.
"Humm." Nathan asked, breaking out of his stupor.
Jonathan looked at Nathan, and understood what he was thinking about right off, "Sir, Lucas is just having a bad day."
"Jonathan, I have chalked his bad moods up to teenage hormones too many times." Nathan sighed, rubbing his eyes, "Do you realize I've known Lucas for almost a year now, and I know next to nothing about his life before he came on board SeaQuest? I don't even know his birthday."
Jonathan looked at his tired captain again, "Why don't you ask him? We might have missed his birthday, and that might be why he's in a bad mood."
"And if we did miss his birthday?"
"Then Ben is probably going to want to throw him a party. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least he'd be happier then he has been."
"I don't think we missed his birthday though. It's something else, and I can't figure out what." Nathan paused, recalling somethings from memory, "The vocorder's fine, the computer is in perfect shape, and besides those two experiments from last week, everything has been perfect. This is one of those times I wish I'd paid a little more attention to Robert."
Tim had thought it was something with his father, but Lucas hadn't talked to Lawrence in months.
Miguel thought it might have been that he missed his mother, after all, she hadn't talked to him since a little after the divorce when he was 14, Nathan considered that a possibility.
Jonathan continued to think they might have missed his birthday, but he also agreed with Miguel.
Katie thought he missed Juliana and being around kids his own age, but Lucas was acting far angrier than that, though Nathan didn't dismiss the idea.
Manilow thought Lucas was mad about the vocorder, but Nathan reiterated that the vocorder had been acting up, and that most of the scattered data had been put back together. So that idea was trashed.
Ben figured he need to get off the boat for a while. After all, Lucas was the only 16 year old on a boat of adults. That idea was trashed along side the vocorder one. Lucas knew that if he wanted to get off the boat for a few days he could just ask.
Nathan looked at his crew, deep in thought about their friend. Their concern was visible. If only they knew what was wrong with Lucas.
Okay, I don't know how this is so far. I'm hopeing someone will like it.
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